What does recipient mean?
Word: Recipient
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Recipient means the person who receives something, such as a letter, a gift, a prize or a message.
Synonyms: receiver, addressee
Antonyms: giver, sender
How do you spell recipient?
Syllables: re - cip - i - ent
Tricky part: The s sound after re is spelt with a c, just as in recipe, and an i follows the p.
Watch out for: resipient, recepient, recipent
Memory tip: Recipient starts with the same five letters as recipe. Picture a cook handing a recipe card to its happy recipient.
Recipient in a sentence
Example 1: Every recipient of the bravery award was invited to the ceremony at the town hall.
Example 2: Write the recipient's address clearly in the middle of the envelope.
Example 3: Our class collected old books, and a village library was the recipient.
Fun Fact
Recipe and recipient come from the same Latin verb, recipere, to take or receive. Old doctors' prescriptions began with the word recipe, which meant take.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) recipient
b) temprature
c) abundent
d) ocassion
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a) recipient. Abundant, occasion and temperature have each lost or changed a letter; recipient is spelt right.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The recipiant of the letter lived on the third floor of our building.
a) letter
b) third
c) recipiant
d) building
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c) recipiant. The word ends in ent, like agent and parent.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word: recipient
a) guest
b) winner
c) donor
d) holder
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c) donor. A donor gives; a recipient gets what is given.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
pcnieetir
a) precinct
b) recipient
c) receipt
d) recite
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b) recipient. Receipt and recite leave letters over, and precinct has two c's where the jumble has one.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The recipient of a parcel is the person who ____.
a) packs it
b) posts it
c) delivers it
d) gets it
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d) gets it
2. Lena was given the science prize at the end-of-year assembly. Who is the recipient?
a) Lena
b) the principal
c) the guest of honour
d) the science teacher
Show answer
a) Lena
